On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Mark Hayter wrote:

> 
> I am just trying to move in to the new world of Mark's August snapshot.
> 
> The root-path syntax has changed, rather than having a server ip addr 
> and the path to mount, it now only includes the pathname and the kernel 
> deduces the nfs server by magic.
> 
> Before I dive for the source, can anyone explain the magic. And in particular
> how I can use an nfs server that is different from the dhcp server?

man dhcpd.conf

There is a next-server parameter which will do what you want. If not given
it will default to the dhcp server.

Stephen Borrill